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I first encountered the Five Tibetans over thirty years ago, in a book I found in Powell’s bookstore, called “The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth” by a guy named Peter Kelder.  Kelder (about whom little is known) told a tale of a chance encounter in maybe 1930, between himself and a  broken-down British soldier named “Colonel Bradford” (about whom even less is known–if he ever existed at all) who said that while serving in the East he had heard a story of a monastery where monks lived...